We Pray for the Repose of the Souls of
MARY LEFTLEY, RIP who died on Friday, 27th May. Her Body will be received into the church on Wednesday, 29th June at 5pm and her Requiem Mass will take place on Thursday, 30th June at 1pm followed by committal at Southend Crematorium.
MICHAEL (MIKE) RUBBERT, RIP who died on Sunday, 29th May. His Body will be received into the church on Thursday, 30th June at 5pm and his Requiem Mass will take place on Friday, 1st July at 10.30am followed by committal at Southend Crematorium.
Requiescant in pace
Music at 11.30am Mass on Sunday
Prelude: Toccata Cromaticha per l'Elevatione (from Fiori Musicali) - Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
Postlude: Allegro (Voluntary in D minor) Op. 5 No. 8 - John Stanley (1712-1786)
Dates for your Diary
Sunday 19th June—Corpus Christi Procession
Saturday 10th September—Flower Festival
Annual Procession of the Blessed Sacrament
Sunday 19th June 4.00pm
Accompanied by the Tilbury Brass Band
Followed by Tea in the Parish Centre
Parish Fundraising - 200 Club Results
Thank you to everyone who supports the 200 Club. The results of the May draw are as follows:
1st prize £150 133 Mrs P Uglietti
2nd Prise £100 86 Mrs M Maguire
3rd Prize £75 20 Mrs C Carlile
4th Prize £25 154 Miss I Solecki
We are still looking for new members. The subscription is £5 per month, either by cash, cheque or direct debit. If you would like to join, please fill in a form which can be found at the back of the church or ring Linda Wall on 01702 558217.
School Family Consecration
School Family Consecration
Marking the X World Meeting of Families taking place in Rome, the children from Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School and their families will be making an act of consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, through Mary, on Friday 24th June.
Please remember the families from Our Lady of Lourdes school in prayer on this special day.
Angelus and Family Blessing 26th June
On Sunday 26th June, Pope Francis will close the X World Meeting of Families with his Sunday Angelus. As a parish, we will join the Holy Father in prayer for Marriage and Family Life with the Angelus and a blessing of families after the 11.30am Mass.
Annual Mass for Marriage and Family Life
Bishop Alan will celebrate the annual Mass for Marriage and Family Life at the Cathedral in July. The parish have received several invitations, intended for couples who have celebrated significant wedding anniversaries this year or have been recently married. If you like to attend, please contact the parish office for more details.
This Mass will be offered for the intentions of families around the Diocese. If you have a particular intention for this day, please complete the form on the website : https://www.dioceseofbrentwood.net/departments/marriage-family-life/x-world-meeting-of-families/
Message from Sister Elizabeth Mary (Liz Mann)
Thank you all so much for your good wishes and prayers on my election as Prioress General. I will be moving to the Generalate House at Lille, France, in the summer. The next 6 years will involve regular visits to our Communities in Japan, DRCongo, Burkina Faso, Vietnam, and of course to our two UK communities. So an interesting, albeit daunting, time ahead! Please keep up the prayers........and be assured of mine with so many happy memories of Leigh and the parish as 'home'.
With many thanks
S Elizabeth Mary
Outing to Hyde Hall Gardens - Thursday, 23d June
Reminder: The coach leaves from outside the Church at 10:15am prompt and then on to Westleigh Schools.
NB: RHS members - please remember to bring your membership cards with you!
Choral Director Vacancy - The Diocese of Brentwood Schools Singing Programme
We are seeking to appoint a Choral Director, this is a new and exciting post which is part of the National School Singing Programme.
Further information about the role can be found on the website
Closing date for applications is 12 noon on Monday 4 July 2022.
Consecration to Jesus through Mary
On the 26th June, Pope Francis will close the X World Meeting of Families in Rome at his Sunday Angelus.
United in prayer with the Holy Father, families are invited to gather in the Lady Chapel after 11.30am Mass on Sunday 26th June, where we will pray the Angelus together for the intentions of all families in the parish. This will be concluded with a blessing of families.
Strawberry Tea - Saturday, 9th July
Your parish SVP (Society of St Vincent de Paul) Conference is delighted to announce the post-pandemic return of its annual 'Strawberry Tea' to which senior citizens of the parish are most warmly invited! Our Strawberry Tea is being held in the Parish Centre on Saturday, 9th July, commencing at 2pm and concluding at 4pm! If you would like to join us on this happy parish occasion please call Janeth Markham on 07786 901488. You will be most welcome!
St Thomas More Alumni Memorial Mass - Wednesday, 22nd June
This year's annual Memorial Mass for deceased pupils and members of staff of St Thomas More High School will be held in the school at 8pm on Wednesday 22nd June.
A tradition that began in 1980, this occasion is open to all former pupils as well as current and former members of staff and offers an opportunity to remember and honour former classmates and teachers.
The Mass is followed by a buffet reception and the chance to renew acquanitances over a drink or two.
Walsingham House Abbotswick
We are looking for young people to join our team next year, you’d live and work as part of the community at Walsingham House at Abbotswick, helping to run retreats for young people aged 10 -18. Our retreats are a mix of prayer, games, discussions and workshops. If you have an interest in working with young people in the future, are enthusiastic, hardworking, involved with your faith and enjoy working with others then please get in touch.
We will provide you with leadership development which will give you skills that will help in your future. We aim to accompany you in your faith journey and enabling you to share that with others. In addition to this your accommodation and meals are included along with a weekly stipend. Through team training, holidays and a week in Lourdes we aim to build a wonderful community.
If you would like to visit or find out more do get in touch, you are always welcome, just email Joe at josephbeattie@dioceseofbrentwood.org
We look forward to hearing from you and hope that you will consider taking a gap year with us.
Flower Festival - 10th September 2022
It is time to be creative again! Thank you to all those who have already said that they want to take part.
The theme of the Flower and Arts & Crafts festival this year is Christian Feasts and Festivals. Like last year we would like people to create a flower arrangement, or tapestries, paintings, photographs (or any type of craft work) on the theme chosen.
The main topics will be: Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Holy Family, Lent, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Christ the King, Pentecost, Ascension Day, Corpus Christi, All Saints & All Souls Day, St Peter & Paul.
There are of course other special feast days you can choose. In Anglican churches Harvest festivals are prominent whilst there are several special feast days for Our Lady in the Catholic church.
Many people who visit during the festival have no religious background and we want to present a powerful and prayerful message about Christianity.
Please let me know which theme or themes you will be doing and in what medium. (mcronan@btinternet.com)
Thanks, Jo Ronan
BCCS Relay100
Last year, volunteers took part in the Diocesan relay from parish to parish for Brentwood Catholic Children’s Society (BCCS) and we’re doing it again!
The Bishop launched the whole event on May 9th, and I have volunteered to do the Lady of Lourdes leg again to St.Helen’s Westcliff before the end of June (date to be confirmed). Our Lady of Lourdes parishioners raised over £100 last time for our leg last year but the most important thing is that BCCS covers all the parishes and shows the importance of the work they do for children.
If you would like to sponsor me you can by either using my sponsorship form - available at teas & coffees after 9.30am and 11.30am Sunday masses from 21st May or by going online to https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/relay100 If appropriate, please use gift aid for your donation.Please mention my name and Relay 100 in the sponsorship note as a reference so that BCCS can trace your donation online.
You can also donate by BACS at Account: Brentwood Catholic Childrens Society; Account Number: 3109413; Sort Code: 40 13 22. Again please quote BCCS Relay100 and my name D Binding. Thank you so much for your support. Darrell Binding
Bereavement Support Group
The Bereavement Support Group meets every third Tuesday of each month. Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, 21st June.
The Group is open to all men and women who have experienced loss and bereavement and are welcome to join us in a warm, friendly and confidential environment. We will meet in the Bernadette room, Parish Centre, and sessions begin promptly at 2pm. Refreshments are available.
If further information is required please contact: Cynthia on 01702 477384.
St Bernard's High School - Open Evening
Open Evening for Year 5 Students
(Prospective Year 7 in 2023)
Wednesday 6 July 2022
6.00pm to 9.00pm
We would be delighted to welcome Year 5 girls and their parents/carers to our Open Evening. This is an evening for girls wishing to join Year 7 in September 2023.
We are also offering an opportunity for parents/carers to visit the school during a normal teaching day, dates will be published on our website later this academic year.
St Bernard’s High School offers selective places based on success in the CSSE selective tests and non-selective places according to faith-based admissions criteria. (Please see school website for full details.)
‘The school is welcoming and inclusive. In 2015, many pupils made significantly better progress than other pupils nationally’ Ofsted 2016
'The gifted, able and talented programme provides challenging enrichment across all year groups and is acknowledged by the NACE Award' Ofsted 2016
‘St Bernard’s High School is an outstanding Catholic school… Attainment and progress of students is outstanding’ (Diocesan Inspection, 2017)
www.stbernardswestcliff.org.uk, Milton Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex SS0 7JS Tel: 01702 343583
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The Most Holy Trinity
Dear friends in Christ
The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is the central mystery of the Christian faith and of Christian life, says the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Dear friends in Christ
The mystery of the Most Holy Trinity is the central mystery of the Christian faith and of Christian life, says the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
It is because of the centrality of this teaching that a person enters the Church through baptism and faith in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. The omission of an “s” at the end of “name” to retain the singular is deliberate. The Most Holy Trinity is one God, but three Persons.
The Trinity was expounded perhaps most profoundly through the teachings of Our Lord in St John’s Gospel. Yet it sometimes remains hard to grasp this side of eternity. Just how can one at the same time be three? The Church has always found ways to explain the mystery. St Boniface, for instance, taught the Trinity to tree-worshipping German pagans by using triangular points of their deities to denote each of the three truly divine Persons.
Later, many of the Christians of medieval Europe adopted the Scutum Fidei, the “Shield of the Trinity”, to express the doctrine, using the same triangular points but this time each linked by a bridge to a node at the centre marked with the word “God”.
Where above all is this life, this mystery, most evident? It is in the Eucharistic Mystery. Through Him, with Him, and in Him, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory and honour is yours Almighty Father…The Mass makes present this intimate life of God: the Three Divine Persons, as Jesus offers Himself to the Father for us, in and through the power of the Holy Spirit. This mystery we celebrate next weekend with Corpus Christi, the Body and Blood of Christ. A special feast crafted so as to elicit faith from God’s holy people, so that we can celebrate so great a reality publicly. Next Sunday afternoon there will be our Blessed Sacrament Procession. Do make an effort to attend—it is the first since 2019. Although our First Communion children lead this Procession, it is an event for the entire Parish to show our love and appreciation for what Jesus has done and left us: His very self under the appearance of the Sacred Host. May this feast be a moment for the entire Parish Family to express the gratitude which is at the heart of the Mass and the abiding presence of Our Lord in the Tabernacle.
God bless you all!
Msgr Kevin Hale
The Most Holy Trinity
Sunday 12th June
The Most Holy Trinity
MONTH OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS
Liturgy:
Readings of Year C
The Nicene Creed
Preface of The Blessed Trinity
5.30pm Mass Gwendoline Underwood, RIP (Anniv) (RB)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass Vincent & Sheila Harrison, RIP (Anniv) (JC)
9.30am Mass Intentions of Mary McDermott (SG)
11.30am Mass The People of the Parish
5.30pm Vespers & Benediction
Monday 13
St Anthony of Padua, Pr, D
9.30am Requiem Mass Gerald Clark, RIP
Tuesday 14
Feria
9am Mass Rory Andrew Neal-McKenzie (Anniv of Baptism) (CD)
Wednesday 15
Feria
9am Mass Michael & Teresa O'Brien RIP (MI)
Thursday 16
Feria
9am Mass Intentions of the Moseby Family (ES)
Friday 17
Feria
12Noon Mass Mrs Lucille Tarrobal, RIP
Saturday 18
Our Lady on Saturday
10am Mass Valerie Tisi, RIP (CSH)
10.30-11.30am: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
Sunday 19
The Body & Blood of Christ—Corpus Christi
5.30pm Mass Janet Elizabeth Bull, RIP (Anniv) (AB)
6.30-7.30pm: Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament & Confessions
8am Mass The People of the Parish
9.30am Mass Christine Keenan, RIP and her family (KF)
11.30am Mass Ray & Teresa Parascandolo, RIP (Anniv) (PP)
4pm Procession of the Blessed Sacrament (No Vespers today)